cage

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

cage UK US [keɪdʒ] noun countable [ cages ]
<I > a space surrounded on all sides by bars or wire, in which animals or birds are kept
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Animal Dwellings - man-made ↑Animal dwellings - natural
 
• A lion has escaped from its cage.
• Using a bunch of bananas, the zoo-keeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.
• The gorilla rattled the bars of its cage.
• Bored out of its mind, the monkey stares out of the cage with unseeing eyes.
• The monkeys bunched together in their cage.
 
verb transitive usually passive
to put or keep birds or animals in a cage
• caged birds/animals
• Sam's been prowling about like a caged animal all morning.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Capturing or taking possession of things ↑Getting, receiving and accepting

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  batting cage, Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr., coop, cage in